done don quixot done don quixote. >>> people don't come here looking for handouts.are a nation of strivers and climbers and entrepreneurs. the hardest working people on earth. >> president obama speaking today. i'm back now with jeff daniels and "the newsroom's" creator aaron sorkin. hardest people on earth. is he slightly deluded, president obama? just taking up from your character's speech at the start of the first episode? are americans still the hard effort working people on earth? >> well, i have no idea. i've never tested how hard other people in the world work. but it's good oratory. >> you didn't write that speech? >> no. but jon favreau, not the actor but the president's speechwriter, would tell you that barack obama is the best writer in any room that barack obama is in. i always smile when people have a problem with the teleprompter. he's the guy who wrote what's on the teleprompter. >> yeah. let's watch how this speech goes on. it's quite interesting what he then says. >> and nobody personified these american values, these american traits, more than the

it is not an accident that the don quixote metaphor is in there. this was never intended to be a documentary. it is a work of fiction last time i looked. in engages people and brings people around, at least gets them talking. maybe about something they have not about or voided thinking about. tavis: you're not bothered by those who think it is you have seen all 10. you're not bothered by those who think it is too idealistic? >> no. he is unabashedly saying, it is swashbuckling, it is idealistic. what was interesting, too, that is what "the west wing" felt like. this grant, big idea. it could almost turn it into a musical. his world is musical theater and he comes from that kind of aspirational writing style. i think no, that is what we -- we did a screening for a lot of tv journalists in new york. we had guys 40 years have been a producer and i will talk to you after the show. i have been a correspondent on "60 minutes"and i will talk to you after the show. a lot of them came up and said they hoped that the show focuses on the ideals because they f

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. >> "don quixote." >> javier has a good idea-- i don't know why i told glu what is javier's idea. >> no, no, woody has to think about it. i don't know. >> it's a great idea. >> rose: it is a good idea. woody allen. i mean, there's an attraction. he's a certain kind of director. he's more than a director. as alec said he's a filmmaker. >> he's, like, one of the few artists we have making movies and he's so special because he's like-- you know, he came from comedy and he's a comedy writer and he kniepped the two, cheese such a humanist. and i think that's not-- that doesn't happen a lot right now. i feel like film is dominated by machines or something. and he -- >> rose: he also lets you go off script. >> he did, although, that's not-- it's really scary to go off script with him because he's my favorite writer so i always felt a little october ward about changing his words. >> rose: and this experience for you, ellen? >> i mean, it's been. >> -been-- it'sactually quite s. when the opportunity popped up i was nervous and intimidated and sort of just went in and did my best to suppress a

this is a show that's making constant references, whether it's don quixote or brigadoon, it's makingad a real firewall between entertainment and news. petticoat junction, gilligan's island, news were supposed to be a loss leader and ratings weren't supposed to matter. when the original deal was made, the inventors of broadcasting and of network news made their original deal with congress for, they wanted free use of the air waves. congress said sure, but in exchange, you have to give us back then it was one hour, not a half hour, one hour of what they called informational programming, we call it the nightly news now. if they had gone one step further and said under no circumstances can there be paid advertising during that hour, imagine how different the news landscape would be. >> a wildly different place. this show is a cross between brigadoon and petticoat junction in a lot of ways. >> yeah. i'm a big fan -- >> i like the long sorkin-esque pause there. certainly the point is well taken that ratings would change the way, jackie, i would love to get your thoughts on this, in terms o